Seneca- On the shortness of life

>>9724096
Tis good.

>>9724096
i read it a few years ago. shit was tight.

i will always remember a metaphor he made about how our lives are like falling water, and memory like a bowl, and those who claim that their life was short merely did not catch much water in their bowl -- that is, they were not really remembering their life, or appreciating it. case in point: the quote on the cover

>that cover design
The West needs more gulags

That cover is pretty terrible desu

>>9725982
The Stoics aren't flashy people.

>>9727169
>Seneca's suicide
>not incredibly flashy

And the cover looking bad has nothing to do with how not-flashy it is

>>9727840

All he did was talk about death with his bros until he succumbed to the poison a la Socrates

>>9727848
After not dying from slitting his wrists. I'd say that's dramatic.

>>9727854

He didn't bitch about it. He just drank poison. Then he talked about the immortality of the soul and whatnot. Stoicism is really pretty underrated.

>>9727848
>GATHER AROUND FRIENDS AS I MAKE GRAND SPEECHES BEFORE I FINALLY DEPART

>DOES ANYONE HERE REMEMBER SOCRATES???